France’s Annecy festival is already the world’s largest animation event, and it’s about to grow even bigger, adding another day to its schedule for a week-long run in 2023.
The expansion sees the festival’s opening day moved forward to Sunday 11th June, with the Annecy Festival continuing through Saturday 17th June.
Traditionally, Annecy Intl. The Animation Film Festival opened on Monday, with the opening ceremony and film on Monday evening. The celebration will now continue at the lakeside Bonlieu Grand Salle. Some shows will be added on Sunday afternoons.
The Annecy International Animated Film Market (MIFA) keeps a four-day long from Tuesday to Friday, swinging through from June 13-16 next year.
The move follows Annecy’s explosive growth in terms of attendance, bringing the total attendance to 13,248 entrants ever, including MIFA 4,300 delegates, in 2022. This reflected the massive expansion of global animation in general, which also drove demand. on recruitment. Talent from live broadcasting and global studios alike.
Annecy Channels is part of this recruitment drive. Heavily curated, the festival has continually added more events to cater to festival overflow and market attendance and an attendance of acts spanning from global broadcast services to global animation, as well as press conferences and screening events, including short films.
The 2022 festival slapped up to 20 events in the early afternoon of June 15, including major performances from Netflix, Disney Television and Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, and Hanna Barbera Studios Europe. The studios have already started staging their own pre-fest events on Sunday night.
“Every year the number of festival-goers is higher, the content is increasingly diverse and comes from all walks of life, and therefore we find ourselves very limited by the historical format of the festival,” said Mikael Marin, CEO of festival organizer Setia.
“Introducing the Opening Day should enable us to improve the experience for everyone and put the Opening Ceremony in the spotlight to increase its place in the week’s comprehensive programmes,” he added.
For Annecy Artistic Director Marcel Jean, “In recent years, programming has become increasingly dense. By moving the Opening Ceremony to Sunday, we are realigning the agenda so that Monday becomes a full day of celebration.”
“Some performances will also enable festival-goers to begin discovering the program on Sunday,” Jane continued. “The quality and variety have been a hit, both for major studios and independents alike.”
MIFA will also expand, with its training and employment group, the MIFA Campus, hitherto a one-day event, now taking place from Tuesday to Friday like the rest of MIFA. It will also be assigned its own physical space, Le Campus.
One of the highlights will undoubtedly be the focus on Mexico as Annecy’s country of honor, an event expected before Guillermo del Toro In an incomparable style and reaffirmed on Tuesday by the Annecy Festival.
Del Toro became one of the driving forces of Mexican animation, co-backing El Taller del Chucho, a stop-motion animation studio based in his native Guadalajara that animated part of “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”.
The animation base in Guadalajara and Mexico is much broader, however, with the former setting to become a center for animation on a national and international level in not only stop motion but also 2D and 3D.
Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
Courtesy of Netflix
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